No "Combat Zoom" during battle with Barbs

[Likes_Civing]

SOMETIMES the game will not do a "combat zoom" when I battle a barbarian. Sometimes it does. The game is early.

After I went to 1.52, which was a royal pain in the butt, units in cities in a mouse over would not appear. Culture borders would be "messed up" looking.

Any ideas?

Should I post my dxdiag?

EDIT: I was fine with 1.09. Had a hard tmie installing patch, uninstalled, reinstalled and went right to 1.52 this time and that worked. Can play but with issues. HELP!!!!!!!!!

 

[Zydor]

Please post your dxdiag

Regards
Zy

 

[asmodai]

Actually, now that you mention it, I've been having this as well on my 1.52 Civ IV.

 

[Likes_Civing]

thanks for any advice

 

[Zydor]

You have a GeForce4 440 Go - it will run, but as you have seen, not with any degree of satisfaction. Civ IV is a full blown 3D game - not 3D look-a-like eye candy - and needs a substantial step upin hardware to run it compared to previous Civ Games

Hardware specs for Civ IV - in there hardware T&L support means a video card with its own processor which yours does not have. Hence it runs, but as things get more complex - eg in late game with more objects to track - it will have problems.

http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/support_msr.htm

Unless you can get a card fitted, there is not much you can do apart from reducing the load on the graphics & system RAM by reducing as much as possible things such as resolution, textures, any background services or apps running. Several posts in the first 2 pages of this forum outline these areas.

Regards
Zy

 

[Likes_Civing]

thanks

The philospohy of 1.52 is what messes my brother up. I thought he had an ATI.

OK, so he looks good, no drivers needed, all that stuff is set up right?

he is now running on low settings. We will see how it goes. I will change the civ.ini to make the game not run in windows mode. That will save mem right?

thanks